In 1997, when I first began to offer the Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT®) for persons with Parkinson’s (PWP), it was one of the few times when I would ask a spouse or other family member to NOT join us in therapy. The rationale for my decision and what I said to...
In the past couple of decades there is a growing recognition that non-motor symptoms are experienced early in Parkinson’s disease (PD) and are highly prevalent as PD progresses. Non-motor symptoms have been recently identified as one of the most important factors in...